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Date Sent: 2011-12-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, December 6, 2011 PM edition |
‘Occupy’ Protesters Listed As Domestic Terrorists -- S&P eurozone warning hobbles risk rally
DARPA's Shredder Challenge is Solved Ahead of Schedule -- Insider: $56 Billion Later, Airport Security Is Junk -- Dave Sanders: Fiber-Optics Exec by Day, Defender of Justice by Night -- More Americans Go Abroad For Economic Opportunities -- Senator
Shelby slams CFTC over MF Global -- Romney staff spent nearly $100,000
to hide records -- Bank Of America Sends Internal Email Exposing Where The "Occupy" Movement Is Hurting It Most -- Heartbreak Awaits Republicans Who Love Newt -- Feds crack down on homeopathic weight loss remedy -- Bill would make drug price gouging a federal crime -- Penn Jillette: An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election -- Gov. Jerry Brown implores California voters: Please raise taxes on yourself -- Moscow police clash with anti-Putin demonstrators -- Japan Promises Gold Coins to Buyers Of Its Reconstruction Debt -- Holder Adds Money Laundering To Gun Smuggling -- Protesters March Against Bill That Could Designate Them Terrorists -- Why Corzine Won't Do Time -- Blind Men's Bluff: FED-Defending, Gold-Hating Economists -- Ron Paul
Predicts Terrorist Attacks in 1997, 1999, and 2001 -- U.S. Government
Now Asserts More Power Than Hitler or Stalin -- Cops Hide Surveillance Cameras In Trees Outside Man’s Home -- Iowa Poll: Only Ron Paul Can Beat Obama -- America the Battlefield: The End of the Rule of Law
AZ: Christmas Party at
the Hancock's this Saturday, December 10th, 2011, 6 p.m. til ???; Bill of Rights Day Event, Thursday,
12/15/11 - Phoenix
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News Link • Activism
‘Occupy’ Protesters Listed As Domestic Terrorists
12-06-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Occupy London demonstrators have been listed as domestic terrorists by the City of London Police, who characterized them in the same context as Al-Qaeda, the Colombian FARC and Belarusian terrorists who bombed the Minsk underground.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
S&P eurozone warning hobbles risk rally
12-06-2011
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Financial Times
The threat from Standard & Poor’s that Europe’s six biggest economies may see their top-notch ratings downgraded has thrown some grit into the risk asset rally.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
DARPA's Shredder Challenge is Solved Ahead of Schedule
12-06-2011
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dvorak.org via RTR.ORG post
The objective: create a system for reconstructing shredded papers, then demonstrate it by piecing together five documents, the shredded remains of which were posted on the contest’s website.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Insider: $56 Billion Later, Airport Security Is Junk
12-06-2011
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wired.com
They should be worried about terrorists shipping their bombs in air cargo. And they should be worried about terrorists shooting or bombing airports without ever crossing the security gates.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Dave Sanders: Fiber-Optics Exec by Day, Defender of Justice by Night
12-06-2011
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wired.com
But now the 43-year-old had confessed to operating a bizarre paramilitary vigilante squad that targeted people involved in Ponzi schemes.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
More Americans Go Abroad For Economic Opportunities
12-06-2011
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cnbc.com
It's a curious phenomenon that sends Americans abroad to look for work. The U.S. has traditionally skimmed the best minds from around the world in pursuit of the American Dream.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Senator Shelby slams CFTC over MF Global
12-06-2011
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reuters.com
The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday criticized the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's handling of MF Global's meltdown and said its chief is "evading" questions about his role in overseeing the company.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Romney staff spent nearly $100,000 to hide records
12-06-2011
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reuters.com
Mitt Romney spent nearly $100,000 in state funds to replace computers in his office at the end of his term as governor of Massachusetts in 2007 as part of an unprecedented effort to keep his records secret, Reuters has learned.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Let's Make The Clawback Risk REAL
12-06-2011
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Market-Ticker.org
What JP Morgan is claiming in the MF Global case is that the derivative trade (which is exactly what a "Repo to Maturity" trade is - it's a derivative) is entitled to preference in the case of MF Global over those who had cash there for safekeeping e
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
After Brief October Respite, Mauling Of Paulson & Co. Investors Resumes
12-06-2011
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zerohedge.com
Bloomberg brings us details: "Paulson’s Advantage Plus Fund, which seeks to profit from corporate events such as takeovers and bankruptcies and uses leverage to amplify returns, declined 3.6 percent last month.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank Of America Sends Internal Email Exposing Where The "Occupy" Movement Is Hurting It Mo
12-06-2011
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zerohedge.com
While the general media may be ignoring the latest peculiar twist on the "Occupy" theme, or in this case the "occupyourhomes.org", Bank of America is taking it quote seriously. As a reminder, "Tuesday, December 6th is the National Day of Action to st
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Astronomers discover biggest black holes ever
12-06-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Scientists have discovered the two biggest black holes ever observed, each with a mass billions of times greater than the Sun's, according to a study published Monday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Russia bloggers hail success of 'Facebook rally'
12-06-2011
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news.yahoo.com
Russian bloggers on Tuesday hailed the success of a rarely-seen "Facebook" rally where thousands protested against elections won by Vladimir Putin's ruling party and warned of more demonstrations to come.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Feds crack down on homeopathic weight loss remedy
12-06-2011
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Associated Press
Federal regulators are ordering several companies to stop selling an unproven weight loss remedy that uses protein from the human placenta.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
Bill would make drug price gouging a federal crime
12-06-2011
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AP
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., proposed a bill that would give the Justice Dept. authority to crack down on "unscrupulous drug distributors" who sell hospitals life-saving prescription medicines in short supply at huge markups.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Political Theory
Penn Jillette: An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election
12-06-2011
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youtube.com
Penn Jillette rates the various candidates for the U.S. Presidency from the perspective of an atheist.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gov. Jerry Brown implores California voters: Please raise taxes on yourself
12-06-2011
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Christian Science Monitor
Republicans blocked the efforts of California Gov. Jerry Brown to fix a budget crisis through more tax revenues. So his new plan is to go straight to voters in 2012.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Moscow police clash with anti-Putin demonstrators
12-06-2011
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Associated Press
Police are clashing on a downtown Moscow square with demonstrators trying to hold a second day of protests against alleged vote fraud in Russia's parliamentary elections.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Japan Promises Gold Coins to Buyers Of Its Reconstruction Debt
12-06-2011
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Businessweek.com
Individual investors who purchase more than 10 million yen ($129,000) of debt with a 0.05 percent return and keep it for three years will receive a gold commemorative coin weighing 0.55 oz, worth about $948 based on current prices.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Drug War
Holder Adds Money Laundering To Gun Smuggling
12-06-2011
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www.ammoland.com
But an interesting thing happened on the way to Holder’s prosecution"the DOJ added “cash-walking” to gun-walking and now, someone has to explain how the D.E.A. laundered hundreds of millions of dollars for the Mexican cartel.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Future Predictions
Taking The Gap--Your Move to The American Redoubt
12-06-2011
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survivalblog.com
My goal is to exhort listeners to re-prioritize their finances and set a goal--with a date attached--to make the move to the American Redoubt. (This region includes Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Activism
Protesters March Against Bill That Could Designate Them Terrorists
12-06-2011
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prisonplanet.com
Exercising First Amendment defined as “low-level terrorism” by DoD
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Corruption
Why Corzine Won't Do Time
12-06-2011
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huffingtonpost.com
In a just world, perhaps he should. But don't bet the farm on it. Corzine's most recent gig, of course, was as head of MF Global Holdings, the firm that went bust when Corzine made some $6.3 billion in unfortunate wagers that European sovereign bonds
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Blind Men's Bluff: FED-Defending, Gold-Hating Economists
12-06-2011
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lewrockwell.com/Gary North
The academic economics profession is united on only one topic: the superiority of central banking to the gold standard.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Books
The One and Only
12-06-2011
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Barrons
Remembering Apple's leader, the glory days of a stockpicker, Darwin and Hedy Lamarr. Reviewed by Bretigne Shaffer
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
No Indication Iran 'Shot Down' US Drone
12-06-2011
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news.sky.com
A US official has denied Iranian claims that an American drone was shot down in the country's east, while Nato suggested the unmanned aircraft merely crashed.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iran
American Enterprise Institute Admits The Problem With Iran Is Not That It Would Use Nukes
12-06-2011
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politicalcorrectness.org
Suddenly the struggle to stop Iran is not about saving Israel from nuclear annihilation. After a decade of scare-mongering about the second coming of Nazi Germany, the Iran hawks are admitting that they have other reasons for wanting to take out Iran
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Ron Paul Predicts Terrorist Attacks in 1997, 1999, and 2001
12-06-2011
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youtube.com
In this video, Ron Paul warns the American people that if we continue our current foreign policy, a terrorist attack may soon occur on U.S. soil.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Police State
U.S. Government Now Asserts More Power Than Hitler or Stalin
12-06-2011
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prisonplanet.com
And whatever the outcome of this particular bill, the reality will remain the same: the President of the United States will continue to claim " and exercise " absolute arbitrary power over the life and liberty of every person on earth.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
TEPCO: Radioactive water may have leaked into sea
12-06-2011
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prisonplanet.com
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says radioactive water leaked from a water treatment facility may have reached the sea through a gutter.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
America the Battlefield: The End of the Rule of Law
12-05-2011
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John W. Whitehead, NJ Today
America has indeed become the new battleground in the war on terror. In light of this, you can rest assured that there will be no restoration of the civil liberties jeopardized by the USA Patriot Act and other equally subversive legislation. Instead,
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Gingrich emerges as clear front-runner in Iowa: Paul and Romney tied for 2nd spot
12-06-2011
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Dan Balz and Jon Cohen, Washington Post
With 33% support among likely caucus-goers in the new poll, Gingrich runs well ahead of his two main rivals, Romney and Paul (Both are at 18 percent), a libertarian whose passionate following and anti-government rhetoric have made him a durable force
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science
Focus Fusion Repeating Pulses
12-06-2011
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arclein
FF-1 demonstrates shot-to-shot fusion yield repeatability within 3%
LPP presents at Rutgers, and is granted first foreign patent"in Australia
MSNBC website mentions Focus Fusion project
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Mitochondria Driver in Breast Cancer
12-06-2011
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arclein
shown that cancer is a ‘parasitic disease’ that steals energy from the host"your body,” Dr. Lisanti said, “but this is the first time we’ve shown in human breast tissue that cancer cell mitochondria are calling the shots and could ultimately be manip
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robert klein
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights Day Event Thursday 12/15/11 - Phoenix
12-05-2011
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www.gunlaws.com
Bill of Rights Day Celebration in Phoenix - Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 - Only $15 per person, payable at the door - Students with ID $10 - Deer Valley Church - 15220 N. 39th Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85053. 5 p.m. Mix & Mingle. 6 p.m. Program Starts
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